Category Archives: Neighbor Profiles

Jane grew up on the north shore of Long Island, about 25 miles east of New York City. Right after high school, she left the NY area to go to college in Lexington Kentucky, but moved back to NY after school and worked in Manhattan for a few years. She made a couple of more [...]

José and Tiffany have been living in their home on Callaghan since 2003.
This isn’t José’s first home in Lavaca — he grew up here and attended the Bonham and Brackenridge schools. He lived in St. Albans and Essex Junction, Vermont, and in Chicago before migrating back to our corner of San Antonio.
José [...]

Michelle has been living in Lavaca with her husband Brian, 4 year old son Benjamin, and a menagerie of pets since 2007.
Michelle was born and raised in the Detroit Michigan area. After graduating from high school, she lived in Virginia Beach and Key West, Florida before moving back to Michigan where she met Brian. [...]

Barb Machado made her move from the north side of the city to Lavaca on July 4th, 2007 and has never regretted the change! Her two-story townhouse in Artisan Park is the perfect location for downtown living and maintaining a home office to manage the affairs of the San Antonio Hotel & Lodging Association (SAHLA).
Widowed [...]

Dwight and Gail moved to Lavaca after a four year stay in the San Francisco Bay area. This is their second time living in San Antonio, and they are very happy to be back. They previously owned a home in the northwest suburbs of the city, but decided that a more urban, walk-able neighborhood was [...]

Anyone who has been to our La Frite Happy Hour event knows Stephen… our server “extraordinaire”. Stephen initiated La Frite’s daily Happy Hour a few years ago, and was instrumental in starting the Lavaca & Friends weekly Happy Hour event with Jim and Jane.
Stephen was born in Lakenheath England. His father was in [...]

Syeira Budd
Syeira moved from Long Beach, California to San Antonio in 2002, to pursue “the great unknown.” At the time, she didn’t know if she’d stay for six months or six years. Nine years later, she is still here and enjoying San Antonio’s unassuming treasures and diverse celebrations.
She lived in three other areas of [...]

Joan Carabin
There is no one more committed to Lavaca than Joan Carabin. She has been living in the neighborhood with her husband Bob since 1993, first on Lavaca Street and now on Callaghan Avenue.
Joan grew up in Rochester, New York and joined the Victory Noll Missionary Sisters in 1955. She did her training in Huntington, [...]

Janyce Sisson
Janyce Sisson is an avid supporter of Lavaca’s weekly happy hour at La Frite. In fact, she says it played a big role in her choice of the neighborhood as a place to put down roots.
Within a few weeks of renting a Callaghan Avenue “transition” home in early 2010, Janyce was convinced that the [...]

Jim Feuerstein & Micky
Jim Feuerstein is one of the co-founders of the Lavaca & Friends Happy Hour, and he rarely misses the Thursday event.
Jim was born and raised in a small rural community in Wisconsin. He first left the state to attend college on the West Coast, but since then he’s moved fairly often. He’s [...]